Chapter 43: The Household Belongings of the Anguo Army (II)

According to Lu Panda's explanation, these were all saved up bit by bit by the young marshal and the marshal of An **.

In the Second Zhibong War, the Feng Air Force gave full play to its superiority and dealt a great blow to the Zhijun. As a result, Zhang Zuolin paid more attention to the Air Force, increased funds, expanded the scale, and reorganized the Air Force.

In March 1925, Zhang Xueliang reorganized the Aviation Department of the three eastern provinces into the Northeast Aviation Department, and added two teams, "Feipeng" and "Feibao".

After that, after the Feng army was stationed in Beijing and seized the power of the central government, Zhang Xueliang accelerated the expansion of the air force, set up a seaplane team, and successively purchased 9 reconnaissance planes, 8 seaplanes, 9 bombers, 5 fighters, and 8 training planes from Italy, Germany, Japan, Britain, and the United States!

In addition, in 1926, a batch of planes of the direct warlords were captured at Zhengzhou Airport, and the number of planes of the Feng Air Force increased greatly, and its strength was second to none in the country.

While actively expanding armaments, Zhang Xueliang has always attached great importance to the cultivation of aviation personnel.

In September 1922, the Aviation School of the Three Eastern Provinces was established in Mukden. The following year, Zhang Xueliang personally served as the principal of the aviation school.

2 French instructors, 1 British instructor, and 4 Belarusian instructors were hired. The first batch of 40 cadets graduated in August 1924. The graduation ceremony was very solemn, and many high-ranking generals attended.

Zhang Xueliang personally presented graduation certificates to the graduates and took a group photo with the graduates.

In December 1923, the Northeast Aviation Department selected junior officers from the 2nd and 6th Brigades of the Northeast Army to study at an aviation school in France.

These men returned to China in the spring of 1925, but by this time, most of them were past their prime, and their flying skills and tactical skills were limited by their physical condition.

In view of this lesson, in 1925, when Zhang Xueliang selected the second batch of personnel to study in France, he took physical fitness and age as the main conditions, and selected 28 young people about 20 years old from the more than 1,000 cadets of the Northeast Air Force training class to enter the French Maurana and Gauronte aviation schools for training.

In the autumn of 1926, both cadets were transferred to the Esther Army Aviation School in the south of France to learn to fly and fight.

Moreover, the Northeast Air Force has its own hangars, repair shops, and ground crews, and can have a variety of capabilities such as reconnaissance, bomb dropping, strafing, and leaflet distribution, and they have even been dispatched many times to fight together with the army.

In the Second Zhibong War, the Northeast Air Force came to prominence. The Second Army of Li Jinglin and Zhang Zongchang and the First and Third Armies of Zhang Xueliang and Jiang Dengxuan all deployed aviation teams to participate in the battle.

In this war, the Feng department directly killed the direct line of planes, and then beat the direct line without air supremacy.

In 1927, during the battle against Jin Yun's Hubei department, the Fengjun Air Force dispatched more than 30 fighters, but the Jin Army collapsed under the bombing and ground fire of the Air Force, and collapsed at once.

What is little known is that all the planes that went out this time were produced by the Feng Department itself!!

At this point, Wang Yinran also told a joke about airplanes, most of the Chinese people have never seen airplanes, and once, a plane ran out of fuel and crash-landed on the beach.

The peasants, armed with sticks and spears, surrounded him, believing that the pilot was a "dragonfly spirit" and wanted to kill him. The pilot hastened to say, I am human.

The farmer said, how can a man have two dragonfly eyes? The pilot hurriedly took off his goggles. The farmer said, "Why is there still a dragonfly head?" The pilot hurriedly took off his flight cap again.

The peasant said, "What is this skin on you?" The pilot had to take off his flight suit again. The peasants wanted to burn the flight suits, but the pilot begged them not to burn them, saying that if they did, he would freeze to death in the sky, and that he was definitely not a dragonfly spirit.

A few bold peasants stepped forward and touched it, saying, What a person! The pilot said that he was flying an airplane. As soon as the peasant heard about the "flying chicken", he hurriedly went to fetch a large bucket of water and a bucket of millet, saying that he would feed the big chicken.

Looking at these planes, Tu Qianjun walked over excitedly and slowly stroked it with trembling hands.

It's an airplane! At that time, the old man's squad leader had his legs broken, and he crawled in front of the tank with blood foam and pulled the explosive bag......

Of the more than 1,000 troops, only a few hundred people could come down in the end......

If they had had a few tanks at that time, how could they have been like this?!

Looking at Tu Qianjun's moist eyes, Lu Panda and they didn't speak. Just quietly waiting for him to calm down, he slowly told him the origin of these tanks.

In 1919, France sent a small number of Renault FT-17s to Vladivostok to participate in the multinational intervention of Soviet Russia at that time, and later these tanks were transferred to Zhang Zuolin.

Zhang Zuolin, who got these tanks, felt that this was an extremely powerful new weapon through the actual combat of the tank, so in 1922, Zhang Zuolin ordered 36 "Renault" FT-17 tanks from Britain, France and other countries! The tanks arrived in Dalian in 1924 and were delivered to China.

In 1926, in a battle with the direct warlord Wu Peifu, the Feng army used these tanks for the first time. At that time, the results were quite good, but due to lack of experience and the idea of using tanks, the results were not good.

However, these tanks are still regarded as treasures and secret weapons by An **, and they are easy not to show. And now Zhang Zuolin, who is in Beijing, also has a guard composed of such tanks by his side! Will send them into battle when necessary!

After Tu Qianjun was excited, Lu Panda and the others continued to lead him to visit the camp. Now there are fourteen tanks in the camp, almost all of them Renault FT-17s.

And more than ten vehicles have already followed Zhang Zuolin into the customs and are on call by his side.

Since Lu Panda and Wang Yinran's military ranks were not large, no one came out to entertain them. But because they had a warrant from Zhang Zuoxiang, the people of the tank battalion did not pay attention to them, but just trained on their own.

After visiting for a while, Tu Qianjun also felt the indifference of the officers and soldiers of the tank battalion (). So they followed Lu Panda and left the tank battalion together.

On the way, Lu Panda also introduced to Tu Qianjun the strength of the Northeast Navy stationed elsewhere. At this time, there were more than 20 ships in the An** Navy, with a total tonnage of more than 18,800 tons, and the tonnage and ships were slightly less than those of the Fujian system.

But the "Haiqi", "Haichen", and "Zhaohe" were among the few large ships in China at that time, and they even had the aircraft carrier "Zhenhai"!

Therefore, the An** navy has relatively strong combat effectiveness, directly controls the northern sea surface of China, and forms a situation of north-south confrontation with the Fujian navy on the southeast coast.

The huge Northeast Navy and the fleet supporting forces and institutions are also quite complete, and its subordinate institutions mainly include:

The Marine Corps has two brigades of about 1,200 people, stationed in Qingdao, Yantai, Changshan Island and Jihei along the river. The seaplane fleet, organized in 1926, has 4 aircraft, stationed in Qingdao, Huludao, Changshan Island and other places, and the "Zhenhai" ship can carry aircraft to carry out tasks, this "Zhenhai" ship is also China's earliest aircraft carrier!

With such powerful firepower, such complete logistics, and even the equipment of the navy, army, and air force that are not weak, how could they not let go of a single shot at the time of 9.18 to the Japanese, who only had 20,000 troops, for nothing?!

But in fact, after Zhang Zuolin's death, on September 18, 1931, Zhang Xueliang did order to give up completely without firing a shot! Tu Qianjun couldn't help but smile bitterly, a large group of people always crossed over to the Republic of China and said that the industrial foundation was extremely bad!

But he completely ignored the industrial brilliance created by this bearded handsome man in the Northeast!

Ignoring the strength of this bearded marshal who has an arsenal that can develop guns and cannons on his own, has more than 100 fighters, has more than 30 tanks, and has more than 20 warships, which is feared by the Japanese!

However, even with so much, Zhang Dashuai still died in a loud bang in Huanggutun. The powerful basic industry was still handed over by the young marshal at 9.18......